SCARLET NEXUS REVIEW FULL
And by establishing a good rapport with your teammates, you unlock the full potential of their abilities as well as new options like follow-up attacks on downed foes. Unique objects also appear in environments that allow you to perform elaborate and immensely satisfying QTE-powered psychokinesis attacks, like pounding an Other into the ground with a marble statue or running over a line of enemies with a runaway train. Using the right skills and attacks you can break them down to render enemies helpless and perform a devastating Brain Crush attack for bonus loot. More mechanics get added into the mix, as well. Finally, there’s the Brain Field: an absurdly powerful but extremely risky state that puts your psychokinesis into overdrive and lets you deal massive damage, but can kill you if you stay in it for too long. You’ll also learn the Brain Drive, a super-powered mode that activates after filling a gauge that increases your damage output and combo ability. As you level up, you can fill out nodes in your Brain Map, which unlock special skills that grant new offensive and defensive capabilities to utilize in battle. Using these skills transforms combat from a fairly standard affair to something much more interesting, as certain abilities will be particularly advantageous in given situations-but you also have to learn to manage these skills, as they are all on cooldown timers.Įven more combat augmentations open up the further you go into the game. Utilize Tsugumi’s clairvoyance and you'll be able to spot hidden enemies and weak points, and tap into Gemma’s sclerokinesis to quickly mitigate enemy attacks.
Borrow Kagero’s invisibility to hide from aggressive foes and you can perform sneak attacks. Hook up with Hanabi, and she’ll give you pyrokinetic fire slashes that can set enemies ablaze. But it quickly improves with the addition of the SAS: a system where your playable character can connect their brain to other squad members and temporarily make use of their powers. Chaining attacks together, in particular, can be hard on more resilient foes in the early stages. By holding R2, they can grab a background object and slam it directly into a foe, potentially catching the enemy off-guard and opening them up for further combo attacks.Ĭombat doesn’t feel exceptionally good initially-it’s a little floaty and disjointed, especially when playing as Kasane. However, they also have the ability to use psychokinetic powers, introducing an additional unique element to combat. Both characters have combo attacks, jumping strikes, dodges-the usual array of 3D combat maneuvers. Yuito is a fairly standard action-game swordsman, while Kasane is more of a technical fighter with her ranged daggers. You begin the game by choosing either Yuito or Kasane as your primary playable character. It’s slick and distinct, which gives Scarlet Nexus a lot of personality.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Additionally, the cutscenes are primarily presented in the form of comic-style still panels, giving the game the distinct feel of a high-stakes, episodic manga. You get the feeling from the get-go that something is off about everything that’s going on, which only increases when you first lay eyes on the Others-horrendous aberrations that mix familiar organic and inorganic objects into monsters that move like living creatures, but feel disconcertingly unnatural. The setting of Scarlet Nexus is an intriguing mix of cyberpunk imagery, dystopian society, and pure sci-fi that captures your attention immediately.
When a mission goes awry, they will be forced to take sides and fight to expose disturbing truths lying under the surface.
Yuito and Kasane are two fresh-faced recruits to the OSF, and they find their skills quickly put to the test during attacks. Their destructive impulses have rendered many areas uninhabitable, forcing humans to congregate in cities under the protection of the Other Suppression Force-an army of elite psionics trained to handle Other attacks. However, things aren’t all sunshine and roses for humanity-the populace lives in fear of the Others, grotesque brain-consuming monsters that randomly emerge from a mysterious belt that surrounds the planet. This has dramatically transformed life as we know it, allowing for a new era of connected consciousness and advanced technology. Scarlet Nexus takes us to a world where humans have developed psionic powers and the ability to connect their minds to each other.
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